“I don’t speak about creativity—it’s not part of my vocabulary—but simply to work, to take photographs that were, as far as I could make them, penetrating of that time and the circumstances in which we lived, that was my concern. And there is no question that apartheid spurred me on in that endeavour. If we had been a democracy from the beginning, and lived completely different kinds of lives, I’m not sure whether I would have become a photographer. And if I had, I suppose my work would have been quite different.”